Dahomey
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Please note the 8pm screening will be subtitled.
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In 2021, 26 objects from the Kingdom of Dahomey leave Paris and are returned to present-day Benin. How should these art treasures, stolen from ancestors, be received in a country which has reinvented itself in their absence?
From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop, Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Winner of the Golden Bear prize at the 2024 Berlinale.
Director: Mati Diop
Cast: Gildas Adannou, Morias Agbessi, Maryline Agbossi
"Mati Diop’s exquisite hybrid documentary belies the weight and wealth of ideas within"Wendy Ide, The Guardian
"easily one of the best and most modestly brilliant piece of nonfiction filmmaking you’ll see this year"David Fear, Rolling Stone
